Look what everyone's been up to in Half-Life: Alyx

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Look what everyone’s been up to in Half-Life: AlyxOther than finishing it

Other than finishing it

Half-Life: Alyxis so densely packed with trinkets and goodies to fool around with that it seems it was inevitable folks would cook up some gags with the VR props. RPS have decided that it has some of themost satisfying physics in PC gamesand that’s quite clear when you see all the shenanigans folks have been pulling off inside this sandbox masquerading as a linear game. Here’s what everyone’s been getting up to in City 17.

Gaming the system

What good are physics, you ask? Well, lots of things, obviously. Chief among them, bending the rules. You can carry two items on the back of Alyx’s gloves, which is mostly useful for carrying health syringes. Likely Valve didn’t want players stockpiling health and other items so it’s a handy (har) way to enforce a bit of scarcity. Well marbles to that, says this player. I’ll make my own inventory.

Gabe Newell: “You only have two inventory slots in Half-Life: Alyx. But you also have realistic physics.“Me: “Okay then."@valvesoftware@KaciAitchison#HalfLifeAlyx#HalfLife#Valvepic.twitter.com/bOpkv0fNrT— Andreas Garbe 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @falafelkid.bsky.social (@Falafelkid)March 24, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings

Playing street hoops with Russel

As an expanded version of the cheater’s inventory, here’s another player nagging Russel for more ammo. Talk about hoarding, sheesh. Where was Russel keeping all those clips? Can’t shake the feeling that I’ve seen this before though. There’s someone else that tossesinfiniteclips to their partner.

Being absolute genius cowards

This one is my favorite. I’m cackling over it, truly. This is the kind of thing I’d be doing in a horror game. I relate to this coward on a deep level and have the utmost respect for them. The cautious little “stay put” motion they give to the door and everything. It’s beautiful.

coward level door strats to conserve health#HalfLifeAlyxpic.twitter.com/SnYRJQDJzI— Dunkey🆒 (@AlastorDougal)March 28, 2020To see this content please enable targeting cookies.Manage cookie settings

coward level door strats to conserve health#HalfLifeAlyxpic.twitter.com/SnYRJQDJzI— Dunkey🆒 (@AlastorDougal)March 28, 2020

coward level door strats to conserve health#HalfLifeAlyxpic.twitter.com/SnYRJQDJzI

Trying to recreate Valve’s tweet

Valve flexed their VR skillsin a Tweetthe day before Alyx came out. Of course players wanted to see if they could replicate this trick shot.Many tried.Many failed. This particular player kept at it, achieving a nearly perfect defenestration.

Playing that Portal song

This won’t be the last we see of this piano, nor was it the first. As far as playing a virtual piano inside aHalf-Lifegame though, I couldn’t possibly plug anything other than Still Alive. How much practice must this have taken to get the feel for how far apart the keys are? You can see they’re just pecking at the keys with index (har) fingers but that’s still impressive in my book.

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Refusing to look out the window

This very determined player found a bit of dialogue that many may not have on their first run through. I mean when Russel says “look out the window,” don’t you want to know what’s out there? Don’t you want to see City 17? Not this person. No siree.

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If you’ve been trying your hands in the new VR shooter, what silliness have you achieved?

Gaming the system#

Playing street hoops with Russel#

Being absolute genius cowards#

Trying to recreate Valve’s tweet#

Playing that Portal song#

Refusing to look out the window#